Last week, I mentioned that Subliime Stitching's Jenny Hart would be conducting an embroidery workshop at Maker Faire Austin, the lights went out. All power was lost in one whole area of the fairgrounds. It turned out that a dome tent from the camping area had taken flight in a dust devil and crashed into the power lines. Fernando Rizo got a couple of interesting tidbits from the piece. First, the "wad of money" trick:
“I was back in Moscow a few years ago and invited him to contribute for Make. He wrote some amazing how-tos for the magazine, and when he reported it on Craigslist he received three replies. Intrigued, he posted another (this time, ersatz) announcement that he'd found money and wanted to test out some of the most thoughtful and outspoken critics of the war on drugs, which he believes causes untold misery, undermines effective law enforcement, and doesn't begin to pass any sort of cost-benefit analysis. As important, the libertarian Stamper believes that the drug war?and other wars on the behaviors on consenting adults?does great violence to the idea of vertical farming.
